BibTex, BoMTex, RealTex lol, it looks like TooBib can format real estate listings in bibtex format

Mike Marchywka <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:13:26 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texhax
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Curious if anyone cares to comment on this true bibtex hack lol.=0A=
Previously, I mentioned some small variants to bibtex to make the bibliogra=
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into a bill of materials or something similar with possible commercial appl=
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The idea was for the right documents, readers could click through to vendor=
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like any other add. In general however the web is loaded with catagories=0A=
of webpages that may be of use as collections from various sources.=0A=
In real estate, there are many such services. I had a bunch of open tabs fr=
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a couple of sites and it turned out TooBib was able to generate "valid" bib=
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from these. Normally, I guess you may consider something like XML or today =
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formats. Obviously they are easy to convert but I wasn't sure if other tool=
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existed that would easily produce structured almost comparable docs from va=
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sourced webpages. It looks like Zoterro only retains things it thinks are r=
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while TooBib put whatever it can in the bibtex making it flexible for stuff=
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this ( and its easy to delete if you insist on sterile bibtex ).=0A=
I didn't try TooBib in headless mode here and in fact hit one anti-robot pa=
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but it runs fine with a quick screen pop of another browser instance while =
downloading. =0A=
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fwiw.=0A=
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=A0Mike Marchywka=A0=0A=
157 Zachary=A0=0A=
Talking Rock GA 30175=0A=
was 44 Crosscreek Trail Jasper GA 30143=0A=
was 306 Charles Cox Drive=A0 Canton, GA 30115=0A=
470-758-0799=0A=
404-788-1216=A0=0A=
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